Kevin Harvick on Goodyear
Kevin Harvick won the NASCAR Busch Series race at Daytona International Speedway, picking up where he left off after winning the Busch Series championship last year.
He won't be racing for a Busch Series championship this year. He decided to split his time between his own Busch Series car for Kevin Harvick Inc. and the Richard Childress Racing car he won with at Daytona.
Goodyear has brought a harder tire to Daytona for all the NASCAR teams, from the trucks to the Cup cars, to use. Harvick said the new tire made for a slippery race, but he had few complaints about them.
"I don't know that we had any tire problems today," said Harvick, who also drives for Richard Childress Racing in the Nextel Cup Series. "So Goodyear has made the right decisions. I'd rather have hard tires and slide around everywhere. Even though the tires are hard, you want to come in and put tires on to keep the cars handling good."
Having a good-handling car was key to Harvick's win in the Busch Series race and taking four tires instead of two during pit stops may be a strategy his team uses in the Daytona 500.
"I think it made for a pretty entertaining race from inside the cockpit. I don't know how it was to watch, but it seemed like everybody was kind of sliding all over the place," Harvick said. "I'd rather have it this way, and I think it's safer on everybody."